FReeper Canteen~Mysterious Places~12 Feb 09

Thank you Troops, Vets, Allies & Military Families! | AZ & Ms B

[luvie]

Well, it looks spooky enough!

[mylife]

No worrys L0L

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMzHlkB-Yg
Stand Up Men of the West!

[luvie]

My son lived near that place and yet we never did get to
go see it. Rats! I would have liked to have seen what
she did with the place! LOL!

[luvie]

I gotta think, knowing Bart Simpson, that it is a play on the word “commandant”. Am I right? :D

[HiJinx]

Haunts and History

The Gadsden Hotel in Douglas, AZ

Southern Arizona, the real old west in the year 1907. Wyatt Earp and Geronimo were still battling with blazing glory throughout this part of the country, Arizona had yet to become a state and the Gadsden Hotel first opened her doors, providing gracious hospitality to all who passed through. Named for the famous Gadsden Purchase, the hotel became home-away-from-home for cattlemen, ranchers, miners, and businessmen in the newly settling territory. Nearly every Arizona Governor has stayed in the Governor's Suite, so did Eleanor Roosevelt.. .

The Hotel was leveled by fire and rebuilt in 1929. Purists question the tale of Pancho Villa's impromptu ride up the stairs, noting the Mexican revolutionary was assassinated in 1923, six years before the new hotel opened. Management will be quick to point to newspaper accounts that indicate that the marble stairs survived the fire, and be just as quick to show you the chipped surface on the seventh stair that people talk about to this day. The Hotel nearly died again a decade ago, this time a victim of neglect. The Gadsden was rescued in 1988 by its current owners, North Dakota wheat farmers Doris & Hartman Brekhus.

Daughter-in-law and Hotel Manager Robin Brekhus will be one of the first to tell you more of the Gadsden's interesting past as she recalls her first encounter with the Gadsden Ghost. It was 4:10 pm Friday March 13,1991. The power had failed and she was in the basement, searching for candles. In the beam of her flashlight, she saw a faceless figure shaped like a man. "He just kind of floated down the hallway. It just looked like fog to me, but it was the shape of a person." For years, hotel workers and guests have confessed to seeing an apparition often around Lent or Christmas, and often in the hotel's cavernous basement. Sometimes it's described as headless, caped and wearing army-style khaki clothing. In her 26th year of operating one of the oldest manual elevators west of the Mississippi, Carmen Diaz saw the ghost in the basement as well. "Tall man. Black pants suit. No head." Brenda Maley, restaurant Supervisor said she saw the shadow of a body hunched over her one night as she lay on her stomach in her bed in her hotel room. She said she witnessed this immediately after a strange sensation where "all of a sudden I couldn't move." A movie crew member told Brekhus that his light turned off and on in the middle of the night, and then his golf clubs went crashing down on the floor.

[AZamericonnie]

LOL...you were both on track!

[mylife]

Lotsa history in the hills

[Liberty Valance]

[luvie]

Ooooooooooo.....

[mylife]

Definitely a play on words

[AZamericonnie]

Do you know I had never heard of Tal Wilkenfeld until the first time you posted this?

I seriously can’t thank you enough.

[mylife]

I just found out Susan Tedeshci played her last week at House Of Blues.

I missed it :(

[HiJinx]

Hey, we were there, too!
Drove up from Augsburg...nice place to visit and the food was great!

[mylife]

Susan T and Derek Trucks~Little By Little

[HiJinx]

The mystery castle is that place down by South Mountain Park, yeah? It was featured in Arizona Highways last year, I believe.

[HiJinx]

At 51st Avenue and Indian School Road,

I managed the Hardee's at 51st and Indian School...and can honestly say I never heard this lady. But I believe it! Right behind the store, a block down 51st, was the main Arizona DMV office. What went on (or didn't go on) inside that building was enough to make the most patient of Saints run out screaming and tearing their hair.

[PERKY2004]

Hiya. How are things with you?

[luvie]

I thought you probably visited it. Wonderful little town and
YES the food was awesome, as was the scenery!

[HiJinx]

Yeah, that’s the place!